STOEP COLLECTIVE JOURNAL
Field-notes, missives, essays, reviews and fragments from our studio, collaborators and collective
Poet Interview: Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal
“The process of self-translation felt like a homecoming via a detour. Finding myself in another language helped me to rediscover the feelings and memories that inspired my poems in the first place, and the process became an interlinguistic meditation on what and why I write.”
Poet Interview: Nondwe Mpuma
“I think in most of the poems I am moving between myself, my imagined self, other characters and other people’s perspectives.”
Theatre Review: Please, don't call me moffie (dir. Zubayr Charles)
The play opens with Mushfeeq lying in bed and scrolling on his phone. He is turning 30, an age which is often accompanied by a not-quite-quarter-life crisis and contemplation. He recounts a recurring dream about his own death. He can see himself lying dead, being bathed and wrapped in the kafan before being taken to receive the Salat al-Janazah and be accepted into the afterlife.
Stoep Collective Co-Founder, Megan Natasha Ross, in the Press
“I try to honour the themes of the work and pay attention to the vision of the writer. Depending on the publisher, there may also be a set brief or ideas that need to be incorporated.”
Interview with MANCOSA Educator, Michelle Naude
MANCOSA School of Education Academic, Michelle Naude speaks to Stoep Chief Creative and award-winning poet, Megan Ross about how literature promotes STEAM education, innovation and diversity.
Megan Appears on the Mamas with Attitude Podcast
“Megan has been intentional and vocal about documenting her mothering journey through her debut anthology of poetry, Milk Fever, and her short story, Farang. The conversation was an eruption of shared joy in creativity and claiming space to create and practice feminist mothering.”
Stoep Chief Creative mentioned in New Frame News Feature
“In a war against women by men, feminist mothering that teaches boys how to give and receive love is a radical political act.”
Writers and Contributors
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Megan Natasha Ross
Co-Founder and Narrative Lead
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Niamh Ahern
Stoep Collective Contributor
Writer, Editor & Researcher